Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ribh]

Oh, I know what you mean! I'd love to get to know so many breeds! But, I have settled on Orpingtons, just may expand my color choices if the opportunity arises. I do still love my 2 RIRs but they will be the last of that breed. Well, they are young, so I'll have them for years to come, I hope.

Orpingtons are lovely but probably not a good choice for our climate. Most of my birds are struggling on our really hot days. Except for my Campines. Good thing I love them & want more because they seem like a good choice for this climate.

 

[Shadrach]

This is Mad Hatter:
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This is Mad, Abby and Alice:
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And a close up of Alice:
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These photos are from December 19th. It's too rainy to get a decent photo today.

I do like meeting other peoples chickens.
Lovely soft looking hens are Abby and Alice. How old are they?

 

[LozzyR]

Maybe she just likes purple shoes?

She has good taste then.

 

[ValerieJ]

I do like meeting other peoples chickens.
Lovely soft looking hens are Abby and Alice. How old are they?

They are 19 to 20 weeks right now. I got them at approx a week old, so don't have an exact date. Aren't they sweet? Abby was originally Absalom because the consensus on BYC was she was a cockerel. She surprised us all.

 

[LozzyR]

That would be fun.

Yes, I’d follow it.

 

[LozzyR]

When did you teach them to read by the way. Love the feed sign.

This cracked me up. Can you imagine literate chickens?! Researchers would have a field day! And Bob would definitely have to keep his girls away from his laptop!

 

[LCG Chicken Coop]

Wow I finally caught up after falling what seemed to be 20 pages behind, and with the holidays to make reading time harder to find, I feel bad for only occasionally “liking” posts and am wondering if there’s an etiquette to the practice. forgive me as a newbie but I’m liking everyone’s post in my head and failing to mark it on the actual post.

The flock of 17 I’m managing is now 20 weeks old and someone laid their first egg yesterday. Not everyone has a red comb, so the suspects are a distinct subset of RIR or Red Star. And our young rooster is now crowing—I have a home lined up for him at my sister’s place as I’m reluctantly admitting that for this flock, there is no advantage to keeping a rooster. It’s sad because he’s quite beautiful right now and still quite leery of people, but I don’t want to wait until he turns aggressive on any of our volunteer tenders (or me.) Bob, at what age did Jabber become unmanageable?

here is our guy, August. He’s a Silver Spangled Hamburg.

Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary Bob!

 

[BY Bob]

This is Mad Hatter:
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This is Mad, Abby and Alice:
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And a close up of Alice:
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These photos are from December 19th. It's too rainy to get a decent photo today.

They are so beautiful. I love the names. My Hattie is named such after the Mad Hatter. How's that for coincidence!

 

[Shadrach]

Wow I finally caught up after falling what seemed to be 20 pages behind, and with the holidays to make reading time harder to find, I feel bad for only occasionally “liking” posts and am wondering if there’s an etiquette to the practice. forgive me as a newbie but I’m liking everyone’s post in my head and failing to mark it on the actual post.

The flock of 17 I’m managing is now 20 weeks old and someone laid their first egg yesterday. Not everyone has a red comb, so the suspects are a distinct subset of RIR or Red Star. And our young rooster is now crowing—I have a home lined up for him at my sister’s place as I’m reluctantly admitting that for this flock, there is no advantage to keeping a rooster. It’s sad because he’s quite beautiful right now and still quite leery of people, but I don’t want to wait until he turns aggressive on any of our volunteer tenders (or me.) Bob, at what age did Jabber become unmanageable?

here is our guy, August. He’s a Silver Spangled Hamburg.

Happy New Year and Happy Anniversary Bob!

Forum etiquette, hmmm, I'm not sure there is. It's just great that you post. That will do me.
I hit the like button for just about everything except posts I really don't like or posts I've missed. On these 'personal threads' I try to give a like for all I read. On the general forums it's a bit different. I like the posts I agree with or the well presented posts that I might not.
I don't like every post though on the general forums.
That's how I do it. The why I do it on the personal threads is a) I'm a guest, and b) I rarely see a post I don't think deserves a like.

 

[mixedUPturk]

i couldnt do the 700+ messages i was behind sure am glad to be back though!